The Hangover
Director: Todd Phillips
Writer: John Lucas & Scott Moore
2009
Alright, so this film was actually more hilarious than I thought it would be. It’s not one of those overrated comedies where all the funny stuff is in the trailer and the rest of the film is lame. The Hangover provides genuine laughs – its brand of comedy is smart, carefully constructed and not cheap. What I like about this film is, we never get scenes showing what the characters were doing the night before in their drunken stupors, no flashbacks or those ‘maybe this happened’ flashbacks that posit what the characters were doing even if it didn’t really happen. We find out what happened, and what they did, as they find out – and that’s what makes it fun. The onscreen chemistry between all the actors (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) provides for perfect comedic timing and that is hard to fake or act your way out of. You either have it or you don’t. And this film has it, which makes it well worth your laughing efforts.
